If he doesn't make sense for your team why even post a value of package? Do you see Coyotes fans barging in offering Vermette and a 3rd since he doesn't make sense for them either.

Karlsson... hmm... we already have 3 offensively capable RD who are all more physical and we don't really need him, I guess I'd trade Neuvirth and Beagle for him. Throw in Joel Ward if you ask REALLY nicely.

no, that's not what i said.
I said I dont know if I want him on our team.
He makes sense for us as 30-40 goal, PPG LW. The problem of course is his ridiculous salary, the crazy length of the contract and the oxygen he would eat up in the room, in the media, the potential disruption to the entire team dynamic (which would not necessarily even be his fault) The media would devour this story and besiege the team at all stops - any successes or failures would all be stories about Ovechkin right or wrong.

So factoring in all that id say that's what he is worth to the Sens.
it had nothing to do with value based on a lack of need, it had to do with everything else.

A few years ago it was all Crosby or Ovy. Its clear now Crosby is the better player. However, what would the Caps have to add to get Crosby in a hypothetical trade?

Ovy+backstrom?

I hate the Pens, but if I were in their shoes, I'd ask for Carlson or Alzner to be thrown in as well. Just can't see the motivation for the Pens to trade Crosby for anything less, he's that much better than everyone else.

gally Subban and a first may get you in the negotiating room with Washington

I'm actuallly not sure it's worth rolling the dice on Ovechkin. He has a long contract at huge dollars and seems like he may have regressed badly (into 65-70 point range).

Honestly I was trying to imagine a Canucks roster with Ovechkin on it and even if we could get him for Luongo + Ballard (not that WAS would do that) there was still no way to make it work without removing other major pieces off the roster due to the cap going down. That being said, if a package of Luongo + Ballard + Burrows worked, I'd likely do it (not that I necessarily think WAS would do it).

The idea of trading Gally + Subban + high 1st for him is not good IMO.

NOTE: I think there's a chance Ovechkin starts rocking again but 8 more years @ $9.5M is a team killer if he doesn't pick it back up.

Wouldn't even trade Price straight up for OV at this point. Especially not when you look at the depth in goal the team has.

The fact is, if McPhee was going to explore trading OV he would want an amount that would gut a team. I just don't see how any team would want to do that for Ovechkin

Yeah, Price's .916 from last year is too precious to trade for a bum like Ovechkin. Only what, 25 goalies did better?

Trading Ovechkin without trying to legitimately build around him (not the half-assed crap McPhee and Leonsis have been pulling) would be the dumbest thing this franchise ever did. Yes, including Scott Stevens.

I think its a bit ridiculous to look at a prospects draft round to try to equal things out. Take the first away from Couturier. Last I checked, he played a full year in Philly last season and had great results. Remind me what Galchenyuk and Beaulieu have done in the NHL.

Caps could end up selling low to move Ovechkin, and I hope they do, but low isn't free. A young top six forward, an NHL ready blue chip prospect, a high end prospect, and a top five overall first round pick are the about what it would take.

Think a bit more than Kovalchuk fetched for Atlanta. (Top6 forward, 1st rounder, prospect, top four Dman) that's the low end for Ovechkin.

Yeah, Price's .916 from last year is too precious to trade for a bum like Ovechkin. Only what, 25 goalies did better?

Trading Ovechkin without trying to legitimately build around him (not the half-assed crap McPhee and Leonsis have been pulling) would be the dumbest thing this franchise ever did. Yes, including Scott Stevens.

Clever to put that in there. Still wouldn't do it, too many factors involved to make it bad for any team trading for OV.

There's probably 15 different ownership groups that would love for Ovechkin to be available at nearly any cost. They would love to have their arena packed full of season ticket holders and lines out the door to buy new Ovechkin merchandise.

His entertainment and marketability, even by reputation if not his current status, would still make him highly attractive to a number of teams. Contract, cap hit and on ice production aside, Alex Ovechkin puts fans in the stands and money in the owner's pockets and according to Bettman there's a lot of broke owners out there.

With how he has played and the questions created the past couple of years, and given that long term contract with the huge cap hit he is not tradable absent his turning it around and showing he was back to how he used to be.

And if he does turn it around the Caps would have no interest in trading him.

Yeah, Price's .916 from last year is too precious to trade for a bum like Ovechkin. Only what, 25 goalies did better?

Trading Ovechkin without trying to legitimately build around him (not the half-assed crap McPhee and Leonsis have been pulling) would be the dumbest thing this franchise ever did. Yes, including Scott Stevens.

Yeah why trade price for a player who came in 37th in the league in points last year, yet has a 9.5 million cap hit for the next 10 years....